This number of honorees was good, but it could have been higher. Last year, 235 students received this honor. During the Monday event, both Superintendent of Schools Danny Bell and the guest speaker Brenda Lofton, 2006 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, pointed to parents as playing a large role in student academic achievement.
“When expectations regarding academic achievement are part of a family’s way of life, the student is more likely to rise to the occasion (and do well in school),” Bell said.

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Throughout the course of attending pre-marital counseling, interviewing a long-married couple, watching a video on marriage and writing articles for
The Ruston Daily Leader spring bride insert, I’ve collected numerous tips for keeping a marriage from resulting in divorce or shootings. From those, who, like myself, are just starting out in marriage, to those who have been together since the Beatles formation, I believe these strategies will make the wheels of wedlock run more smoothly.

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Head coach Billy Laird and his team can only hope they get the same results this time as they did in their first game with a 4-5A foe.
Thanks to an amazing 21-point rally in the final half, RHS was a 24-21 winner over the Skippers and one step deeper in the playoffs.
Assignment No. 2: deal with the Bulldogs at Fountainbleau at their stadium on Friday starting at 7.
“That’s a strong district,” Laird said of the 4-5A circles, “and to come out of it like they did and still be in the playoffs, that says a lot about their team. They’re deserving of their rankings.”

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• The CVB agrees to pay the Police Jury $80,000 per year to support the park until the conference center is ready for occupancy; and
• The CVB agrees to pay the Police Jury 1 cent of the 4-cent hotel/motel tax for 10 years after the conference center is ready for occupancy. The agreement would then be reevaluated after 10 years.

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